I'd be very excited for the performance of the RTX 4060 if I didn't fear Nvidia's pricing

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We know Nvidia has an RTX 4060 GPU in the works. We already have an idea of the specifications. But exactly how fast will it be? According to some detailed leaked benchmarks, the answer is pretty much as fast as an RTX 3070 Ti.

A poster on the Chinese language forum Chiphell (via Hothardware) claims to have had access to an RTX 4060 board running the upcoming Nvidia AD106 GPU. The specs listed for the board are very much in line with our expectations for the RTX 4060. So here goes with the performance numbers.

In Time Spy extreme, the RTX 4060 is 3.28% slower than the 3070 Ti, probably reflecting the fact that the 4060 is reported with over 40% less memory bandwidth due to a 128-bit bus versus the 3070 Ti's 256-bit bus.

The RTX 4060 is said to offer eight times the L2 cache memory of the 3070 Ti and also 40 percent higher boost clocks. So, that's how it makes up the performance deficit despite the fact that it makes do with 4,608 CUDA cores to the RTX 3070 Ti's 6,144 CUDA cores.

The RTX 2080 launched over four years ago, so it's debatable just how impressive the gains are even from a '60 series GPU ostensibly a couple rungs down the product stack.

Jeremy has been writing about technology and PCs since the 90nm Netburst era (Google it!) and enjoys nothing more than a serious dissertation on the finer points of monitor input lag and overshoot followed by a forensic examination of advanced lithography. Or maybe he just likes machines that go “ping!” He also has a thing for tennis and cars.